ROGERS v. SQUIER

No. 11398.

157 F.2d 948 (1946)

ROGERS v. SQUIER, Warden.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 18, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis Rogers, in pro. per., and Booth Goodman, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., of Seattle, Wash., and Guy A. B. Dovell, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Tacoma, Wash., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, HEALY, and BONE, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the federal court for Utah of the crime of rape charged to have been committed in 1936 on the Fort Douglas military reservation in that state. His petition for release on habeas corpus, denied after a full hearing below, raises the question whether the court had jurisdiction to try the offense.

The Fort Douglas post, originally embracing an area of 2,560 acres, was reserved from the public domain by executive...

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